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Customer service reaches new hieghts...

My mobile contract expired just before Christmas and because of the issues I was having with Orange earlier this year (Seeing Orange) I decided I’d take my business elsewhere. Every year we go through the same charade trying to find a new contract, something that has what we want

New Year -new blog layout

I’ve never really been happy with the look and feel of this blog and felt that it needed jazzing up a little –especially now I’m getting more and more hits on it but life got in the way and as ugly as it was it did however do

Marketing your business in the newspaper

I had an interesting chat with Chris from Jump'in Jacks'bouncy castle hire about marketing his new business Mad Hatters party shop (website coming soon I hope!!) in the newspaper. Basically he’s taken out an advert with a local paper but I don’t personally feel

Doug Setzer on Iron Speed / Code Generators

Thanks to Doug Setzer from 27 Seconds Inc for these thoughts, he doesn’t blog (yet) so thought I would be interested in posting it –not sure why as it would seem he’s my only reader…! I tend to agree with Doug on this one, I remember seeing Code

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

After the fun and games we had with IE and sorting out an old CSS design for www.technikfloor.co.uk on Friday when I saw this pie chart I thought it was an excellent summary of a modern web designer’s life. Personally I feel my Teal coloured slice

Tendering - Who, What, When and How?

Following on from my previous post of “Pricing your work”, I mentioned there were two questions I get asked on a regular occasion. Here, I’m going to cover the second (and more common) of the two “How do you get the work?” I have to confess that since establishing

Blogging and competition

One of the reasons I started this blog was because I felt I often came across nuggets of information that someone else out there may find useful in some small way and that I should share the information where possible. I also wanted a place to store all those little

The scourge of Google and public facing blogs

I had a meeting with a lovely new client today and part way through the conversation they mentioned that the had been looking for my mobile number online, when typing my name into Google though you’re faced with an abundance of the messages that I leave on mailing lists

Pricing your work

There are two questions I get asked a lot by people who are thinking about becoming self-employed and even those already running a business. The first is How do you get the work? –this is something I’ll blog about in more detail later as the second is what I

Time on the phone –wasted time?

After a somewhat hectic week on the phone I asked myself “has all this time on the phone been wasted time?” Well, I spent time talking to clients, developers, friends and family and this is important. Although it may cost you a little development time, talk is cheap (that’s